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he load Enda O’Doherty is determined to carry to the summit of Africa’s highest peak means a great deal more than just the additional 40 kilograms which the washing machine strapped to his back will entail.
Next month, the De La Salle College teacher will undertake a calorie-depleting, nerve-shredding and mentally taxing ascent of the 19,343-feet [...]

oyal Ascot naturally enough occupied centre stage on the racing front last week and Waterford jockey Tom Queally ended the Royal meeting with a brilliant win in Saturday’s feature race, the Group 1 Diamond Jubilee Stakes aboard the James Fanshawe trained The Tin Man.
Queally was always travelling well on The Tin Man in the six [...]

PACKED function room in the ‘Rising Sun’ in Mullinavat was recently treated to an exceptional and diverse presentation of entertainers organised by the local Comhaltas group and held in hour of the late Tony Power of Breanor, Piltown.
Tony passed away in a hunting accident some years ago. He was a talented [...]

lendine River showed her liking for Tramore when ran out a convincing winner of the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Handicap Hurdle on the second evening of the holiday weekend meeting last Saturday. Twice successful at the August Festival last year, Glendine River, trained by Dermot O’Brien was fitted with cheekpieces for the first time [...]

Seamus Walsh and his sister Bernadette Walsh (Sales & Marketing Manager at Waterford Castle) said that the hotel will also be very open to locals when it comes to weddings, nights out and dining.
“We hope we’re going to give people the opportunity to re-live past Ard Rí experiences through this redevelopment” said Bernadette.
Christmas and New [...]

Kieran Walsh & Justine Dwyer
City landmark set for five star rebirth
Waterford’s run of good luck continued this week with the news that one of the city’s most iconic buildings – the Ard Rí Hotel – will be revamped into a multi million Euro four or five star, 150-room hotel.
After over a decade in [...]

A fine New Year’s Day saw a great turnout for the annual race meeting in Tramore, with numbers close to the average for the August Festival meeting and improving on the 2015 figures.
Last year’s New Year’s day meeting, of course, was postponed due to the stormy weather and subsequent waterlogged track.
The good attendance was a [...]

A MAN in his seventies was seriously injured in a house fire in Waterford City in the early hours of New Year’s Day. The fire broke out at a house in St Herblain Park at approximately 4am.
The man was brought to University Hospital Waterford (UHW) where he was treated for smoke inhalation and was described [...]

Michael Frisby, who hailed from Mullinavat but had been residing in Waterford city for some years, passed away recently. Michael was a former employee of Clover Meats Ltd, with a long service to the company, where he enjoyed working with colleagues from South Kilkenny and Waterford till its closure in the early 1980’s. [...]

outh Kilkenny Councillors spoke as one in voicing their opposition to DunoAir’s proposal to construct eight wind turbines on Curraghdobbin and Carrigadoon Hills, adjacent to the boundary with Kilkenny.
Speaking at last Wednesday’s Piltown Municipal District meeting, Councillors said it was vital that both sides of a valley through which the Lingaun River runs through, remained [...]